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  1. MoreCoffee

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    It is cooked before eating.
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    What are you eating? - Part 2

    Crackers with cottage cheese and a half a grape tomato on each cracker. Quite nice.
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    So how long have I been a Catholic?
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    It's not too expensive for Norwegians.
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    Suggest a movie

    Realive is interesting.
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    :smirk:
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    The Cheer Me Up Thread

    How naughty of you :P
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    You are welcome to respond. I did not criticise that but I did want to set the topic straight :)
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    My question was asking if Albion has some reason to claim he was a Catholic longer than I have been a Catholic. Memory is not the issue.
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    Really? :smirk:
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    The Cheer Me Up Thread

    Ummm ...
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    It is a little bit rude to arrive (regularly) just before communion and after the Liturgy of the word. It would be justifiable to refuse communion to such a late arrival but I haven't seen that happen. Our parish priest is rather kind to late comers.
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    What NOT to Do in Church

    Josiah is not a Catholic in communion with the Catholic Church. I think he's a Lutheran. I imagine his denomination practices "closed communion".
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    Paul in Jerusalem

    Yes, very likely the decisions of the council did influence what happened in each diocese for many years. That however is very far from the council being a "governing body". A governing body would need to be a regular or a standing body that legislated for the whole Church. The council was not...
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    Today's Appellations, Yesterday's Taunts

    Sorry friend CL. I misread pietist as priest.
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    Today's Appellations, Yesterday's Taunts

    The word "priest" in English has its roots in the Latin word Presbyter which comes from the Greek Presbuteros meaning "elder" and signifying in the church one who governs in a congregation leading by service. It never had a negative connotation until the time of Wycliffe and then again in the...
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    Paul in Jerusalem

    It is not so. The council disbanded and did not meet again. It played its role but was not a standing body to govern the church.
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    Today's Appellations, Yesterday's Taunts

    It is a matter of lexicography. The word means what it means. The word being χρηματίζω which means "To be divinely admonished, to be instructed by a divine communication" and that it is used with that sense in Mat 2:12; Luk 2:26; Act 10:22; Heb 8:5; Heb 11:7; Heb 12:25.
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    Today's Appellations, Yesterday's Taunts

    You see Apostolic Succession in the word "christian". Remarkable. No one I know sees that in the word.
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    The Triune God.

    The doctrine of the Trinity is no mystery though the reality it seeks to describe is.
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